Scientific Programme

ACCREDITATION

The Swiss Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSCPT) has recognised the 37th Congress of the European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists for continuous education in this discipline. 24 credits have been awarded – please see www.clinpharm.ch for the corresponding listing and note that the congress attendance certificate will reflect this accordingly. Continuing Pharmaceutical Education (CPE) credit or Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit by the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology will not be available for the Basel congress.

Pre-hospital management of poisoningsKeynote: In the urban area of a developed country: the Oslo experience (Odd Martin Vallersnes, Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient Clinic, City of Oslo Health Agency, Norway)Keynote: In the rural area of a developing country: the Bangladesh experience (Dr. Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK and OSD, Health Directorate, Government of Bangladesh)Keynote: On the way to hospital with the paramedics: the US experience (Associate Professor Alex Manini, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Division of Medical Toxicology, New York, USA)Keynote: On the scene with a physician-manned emergency medical service: the French SAMU experience (Professor Vincent Danel, SAMU 38 - Centre 15 de l’Isère, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Grenoble, France)Keynote: With long-distance transport: the Australian experience (Dr Shaun Greene, Victorian Poisons Information Centre, Austin Toxicology Service, Australia)

More oral communications, short orals, electronic and paper posters will be selected from the abstract submissions received – authors will be notified by end January if their submissions have been accepted for presentation.